Ask HN: Why are there no good note taking apps

• org-web

  14 1,366 2.4 JavaScript

  org-mode on the web, built with React, optimized for mobile, synced with Dropbox and Google Drive

> Also i dont care about a fancy looking UI that uses 8GB of RAM and takes 10 Seconds to load, just make it work.

Well, this is pretty much Google Docs or any Open Source clone like Nextcloud or LibreOffice Online I guess. It's surely possible though to write something like that with a very lean UI.

I think many Web developers go by default for something more complex though because it's not necessarily more effort. And well, there are already a bizillion similar apps.

> Also i dont care about a fancy looking UI that uses 8GB of RAM and takes 10 Seconds to load, just make it work.

But this one might be relatively close to what you're looking for: https://github.com/DanielDe/org-web (At least if you self-host, the web server of org-web.org doesn't seem very fast :))

• NotePlan_Themes

  76 78 0.0

  Official collection of custom themes for NotePlan 3

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• markor

  40 3,341 8.2 Java

  Text editor - Notes & ToDo (for Android) - Markdown, todo.txt, plaintext, math, ..

I use Markor Editor plus Syncthing. Markor is open-sourced and has a plethora of features, as you can read on their github page[1]; among these features, it includes file encryption.

Syncthing is really easy to set up and works like a charm. If you want accounts and user management, Markor also works with NextCloud.

[1] https://github.com/gsantner/markor

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